Banks currently dominate the provision of treasury services for businesses in the United States, but they are beginning to face challenges to their long reign. Accenture conducted a survey of over 300 US businesses about their treasury functions, and the findings in…
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The pace of change is not slowing down. Customers’ expectations have radically changed, and they expect much more from their banking products and services than ever before. To maintain relevance, banks need to be on the pulse of these needs and create…
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Let’s start with the elephant in the room. Yes, mortgage rates are at a 14-year high and volume is off by more than 80%. But that’s why I’m writing this blog series. I figure if you work in the mortgage industry, you…
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This is the second part of our series on how banks can adapt to changing customer behaviors and expectations. We’re picking up from the last blog, which explored the “why” of this critical issue; this time we discuss the “how”. I’m thrilled…
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Adam and I were talking the other day about all the changes we’ve seen in the auto and equipment finance industry over the last two years. So many areas of the business have been affected by simply replacing in-person meetings with digital…
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It’s been a busy conference season, and one of my highlights was attending Sibos in Amsterdam, where more than 10,000 leaders from banks and financial institutions around the world gathered to discuss the changing financial landscape—and change was certainly top of mind…
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I attended Sibos 2022 in Amsterdam and connected with clients and partners to discuss the future of banking. With so many energizing conversations, I’m taking this moment to share my key takeaways from the Sibos experience. Disruption has become business as usual…
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Every day we see new reports of companies joining the metaverse. As bulky virtual reality (VR) headsets become a thing of the past, replaced by more comfortable, sleeker models, customers will come to expect many of their online interactions with companies to…
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This year’s Sibos conference in Amsterdam lifted the lid on how banks are grappling to become more sustainable and advance the fight against climate change. And what it revealed is tremendously encouraging. In this two-part blog post, I’ll share some of my…
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In the wake of the Sibos conference, it looks to me like banking right now is full of paradoxes. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a total game changer or a complete dud. Fintechs are an existential threat to incumbent banks or…
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When Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 science-fiction novel, Snow Crash, he could hardly have foreseen that the phrase would be everywhere by late 2021. With bigtech giants like...
As you read this, the internet is being reshaped. And it’s already transforming banking. We have not witnessed a topic explode quite like the metaverse. While extended reality (XR) technology has been...
The disruptions of the past two and a half years have dispelled the notion that cloud migration is a distant proposition. Instead, the cloud is the 21st century foundation for 21st century banking. Ba...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL). It’s a message that appeals to customers, and it’s a growing trend that’s shaking up the credit industry. Fintechs have been moving aggressively to offer BNPL point-of-sale ...
There’s a buzz in the payments industry following Apple’s announcement that it will enable “tap on phone” on its devices. Let’s take a closer look at this opportunity and why everyone is talking about...
You can divide the history of money into five epochs, with each creating a new paradigm for the exchange of value. We are about to enter the next one—and it might just mean that the idea of money will...
ISO 20022 is probably the biggest payments change of the last 30 years—if not more. It’s also no longer news. The industry has known for years that it’s coming. In fact, some institutions began thei...
Sulabh Agarwal unpacks the major forces driving payments innovation in 2022.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings are essential for banks and the companies they fund. But too often these sustainability assessments are opaque and inconsistent. Now, regulations t...
Our first metaverse post attracted a lot of attention and prompted the Ultimate Guide to Banking in the Metaverse. These posts discussed the first step in moving to the metaverse: educating your teams...
